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  • Eungedup
    Giles Watson
    Nestled between Albany and Denmark in the Great Southern region of Western Australia, Eungedup is brimming with vibrant life, yet also threatened by developers. Drawn to this biodiverse wonderland, Watson’s immersion in the wetlands mirrors his own path to healing. His diary entries through the hot Noongar seasons of Kambarang, Birak, and Bunuru record teeming life as the wetla...
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    20,06 €

  • Wild Words at the Grave of Dafydd ap Gwilym
    Giles Watson
    Since the age of seventeen, Giles Watson has been fascinated by the work of the fourteenth century Welsh poet, Dafydd ap Gwilym, and has previously published modern English paraphrases of his work. At the end of an eighteen year stay in the United Kingdom, he took a trip from his home in rural Oxfordshire to Dafydd’s burial place at Ystrad Fflur in Ceredigion. The title poem ...
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    10,95 €

  • Saints, Birds and Devils
    Giles Watson
    Saints, Birds and Devils takes readers on a poetic tour of mediaeval European history, with a focus on the relationships between birds and human beings. The poems respond to a wide range of sources from the Middle Ages, from Icelandic romances and Norse legends, to stories from the lives of saints, monarchs and scholars. The collection concludes with a series of paraphrases o...
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    22,54 €

  • I Dream in White Horses
    Giles Watson
    ’I Dream in White Horses’ is a collection of lyric poems inspired by the Ridgeway Path, accompanied by the author’s own paintings and pastels. The poems celebrate the path itself, but also the trees, ancient monuments, wildflowers and insects which may be found along its course, or by diverting down roads into the Vale of the White Horse. The images which accompany the text i...
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    13,44 €

  • On the Chalk
    Giles Watson
    From one October to the next, Giles Watson’s lyric poems celebrate the landscape, antiquities, flora and fauna of the Ridgeway Path. Each poem is accompanied by a photograph, and arranged in order from one October to the next, building a beautiful impression of the serendipitous experience of walking this ancient road throughout all seasons of the English year. ...
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    23,28 €

  • A Glister of Leaves
    Giles Watson
    Between 31 March and 13 May, 2020, Giles Watson went into self-isolation during the Covid-19 outbreak, and sought mental and spiritual refreshment in memories of some of his most beloved landscapes.Illustrated with photographs from his years in England, A Glister of Leaves revisits the megalithic monuments, woodlands and chalk downlands of southern Oxfordshire, recalls encounte...
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    58,80 €

  • Mimma
    Giles Watson
    The shadow of Fascism spreads across Italy as Mimma, a young journalist from Turin, takes refuge at her Uncle Lorenzo’s nightclub in Soho, London. As another World War becomes inevitable, Mimma forges an unassailable friendship with Sarah, an aspiring jazz singer, while her family are increasingly embroiled in resistance against Mussolini. The coming conflict brings out the be...
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    15,40 €

  • Lover of Cold Weather
    Giles Watson / Martin Williamson
    In this companion volume to their earlier collaboration, ’Recollections’, Giles Watson’s poems and Martin Williamson’s photographs combine to evoke the changing moods of the seasons of a British year from one winter to another. ...
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    37,37 €

  • Recollections
    Giles Watson / Martin Williamson
    ’Recollections’ takes readers on a tour through England and Wales, in search of ancient landscapes, churches, abbeys, hillforts and castles. Martin Williamson’s vivid, colourful, energetic paintings are accompanied by Giles Watson’s poems, which evoke memories of two decades spent exploring these treasured, sacred places. Texts and images alike will appeal to anyone who is fa...
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    26,08 €

  • Rivals of Dafydd ap Gwilym
    Giles Watson
    The fourteenth century Welsh bard, Dafydd ap Gwilym, left a lasting impression on the poetry of his age: verse which often addressed preoccupations we still share today. This collection includes love poems, a lament for a felled tree, extravagant praises for wealthy patrons - including the Welsh freedom-fighter Owain Glyndŵr - scurrilous satires on friars, newfangled harps and...
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    6,97 €

  • The Garden of the Badhbh (Black and White Edition)
    Buffarches / Giles Watson
    88 feet below Messines Ridge, an enormous charge of explosives lurks in the darkness, waiting to be detonated under the German trenches, whilst members of the Royal Irish Rifles prepare for the attack. Sapper John McCreesh entertains himself and his fellow miners with stories of the Morrigan, the war-goddess of the ancient Irish: stories which hold up a disturbing mirror to the...
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    9,71 €

  • Bloom
    Giles Watson / John Lincoln
    In this sixth collection of twelve paintings and twelve poems, John Lincoln and Giles Watson explore the colourful and often sensual world of flowers: the sexual organs of plants. ...
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    11,71 €

  • A New Holland Miscellany
    Giles Watson
    Illustrated with pictures from late eighteenth and early nineteenth century natural history books, A New Holland Miscellany is a series of poetic monologues which narrate encounters between colonial settlers and the Australian flora and fauna. A host of voices - explorers, scientists, artists, convicts, physicians, soldiers, escapees and free settlers - are brought to life wit...
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    36,29 €

  • Real Myth
    Buffarches / Giles Watson
    From legends of the Furies to the shower scene from ’Psycho’, from the gentleness of Melangell to the fury of Andraste, this collection explores folk-tales and myths through a range of different voices. Giles Watson’s dramatic monologues and idiosyncratic poetic narratives are complemented by beautiful and often unsettling illustrations by Buffarches. ...
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    55,92 €

  • The Butcher’s Wife
    Giles Watson
    The Butcher’s Wife has an extraordinary secret: amongst the slaughtered animals which are hung each day in the cellar of her house, there are some which still have souls imprisoned inside their carcasses. Deprived of her freedom and identity by an abusive husband, she must draw upon her own resources in her struggle to set the dead things free, and seek her own source of tende...
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    7,00 €

  • Dafydd ap Gwilym
    Giles Watson
    These 99 paraphrases of the works of the fourteenth century Welsh poet, Dafydd ap Gwilym, explore the extraordinary diversity of his work, from poems inspired by love and nature, through scathing self-examinations and bitter satires, to poems in praise of literary patrons. The style, humour and cadences of Dafydd’s work can never be satisfactorily translated, but the interpret...
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    23,85 €

  • Pearl
    Giles Watson
    A new translation of the fourteenth century Middle English poem. (Please note: although the illustrations are in colour in the preview, they are black and white in the printed copy.) ...
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    13,28 €